A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art historyThroughout Chinese history, dynastic time-the organization of history through the lens of successive dynasties-has been the dominant mode of narrating the story of Chinese art, even though there has been little examination of this concept in discourse and practice until now.
How artists created an aesthetic of "e;positive barbarism"e; in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb.
From one of the world's leading authorities on ancient Greek art, a groundbreaking account of how Greek images were understood and used by other ancient peoples, from Britain to ChinaIn this book, acclaimed archaeologist and art historian John Boardman explores Greek art as a foreign art transmitted to the non-Greeks of antiquity-peoples who weren't necessarily able to judge the meaning of Greek art and who may have regarded the Greeks themselves with great hostility.
Der überarbeitete und erweiterte BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors präsentiert 256 öffentlich zugängliche Privatsammlungen zeitgenössischer Kunst – große wie kleine, bekannte wie noch unentdeckte.
The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival is an artwork, a sculpture, created by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn in a peripheral borough of Amsterdam's south-east known as the Bijlmer in 2009.
Der überarbeitete und erweiterte BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors präsentiert 266 öffentlich zugängliche Privatsammlungen zeitgenössischer Kunst – große wie kleine, bekannte wie noch unentdeckte.
The revised and expanded BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors presents 256 private collections of contemporary art accessible to the public-large and small, famous and still undiscovered.
The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival is an artwork, a sculpture, created by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn in a peripheral borough of Amsterdam's south-east known as the Bijlmer in 2009.
The revised and expanded BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors presents 256 private collections of contemporary art accessible to the public-large and small, famous and still undiscovered.
*Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize and the Franco-British Society Literary Award**Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize*A magnificent biography of the founder of ImpressionismIn the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in western art.
*One of Waterstones' Best Nature Books of the Year 2024*Featuring over 50 original illustrations of dramatic seascapes and reflective rivers, alongside photography of the stunning places that inspired the artwork, Angela Harding's beautiful new book captures the waters that move us.
Zu Lebzeiten für seine emotional aufgeladenen Meereslandschaften mit Schiffen gefeiert und umworben, geriet Anton Melbye nach seinem Tod allmählich in Vergessenheit und wurde erst in den letzten Jahren wiederentdeckt.
A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics.
Dieser Eranos-Band zum Thema Apokalypse ist ein Plädoyer für den Aufbruch des inneren Menschen durch Bewusstseinswandlung und eine neue Haltung zum Göttlich-Geistigen.
Even if you have never picked up a paintbrush before, Geoff Kersey shows you how to paint convincing seascapes in watercolour using just three brushes, three colours, a plastic palette and a watercolour pad.
Dieses Buch verandert unser Verstandnis von Kunst und KulturWas ware aus den beruhmten Malern, Schriftstellern, Komponisten und Popstars geworden, wenn niemand da gewesen ware, um sie zu inspirieren, zu trosten, zu korrigieren, zu managen, zu lieben?
'A groundbreaking shift in how we talk about women, love and relationships' - Marian KeyesAt 38, Louise O'Neill had the life she thought she wanted-until her long-term relationship ended, taking with it the home, future, and sense of certainty she'd built.
From one of the world's leading scholars of Chinese art history, a revelatory account of how the long tenth century witnessed some of the most important changes in Chinese paintingIn the standard narrative of Chinese painting, the half century spanning the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907960 CE) is often considered a transitional period between the art of the Tang and Northern Song dynasties.
*Pre-order your copy of Ink Paper Chisel Grain today*A dazzling journey through 500 years of art, ideas and human imagination, told through one of the most enduring and versatile artistic mediums ever created - the woodcut.
A groundbreaking cultural history of calamitous teacher-student relationships at the heart of nineteenth-century French painting and efforts to fix themThe suicides of painters Leopold Robert and Antoine-Jean Gros in 1835 left a deep imprint on the European imagination.
A groundbreaking cultural history of calamitous teacher-student relationships at the heart of nineteenth-century French painting and efforts to fix themThe suicides of painters Leopold Robert and Antoine-Jean Gros in 1835 left a deep imprint on the European imagination.
An acclaimed cultural history of bluenow available in an attractive, text-only, pocket-sized paperbackBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world.
The first book to recover the Indigenous aesthetic principles that guided how artists of the Aztec Empire created precious artFor the Nahua people of the Aztec Empire, precious things such as feathers, stones, and goldknown in the Nahuatl language as tlazohtliwere central to their understanding of the material world and their place in it.
The first book to recover the Indigenous aesthetic principles that guided how artists of the Aztec Empire created precious artFor the Nahua people of the Aztec Empire, precious things such as feathers, stones, and goldknown in the Nahuatl language as tlazohtliwere central to their understanding of the material world and their place in it.
A beautifully illustrated look at how weaving has influenced art, industry, and society worldwideWeaving is one of humanity's oldest technologies and remains central to our global economies.
A beautifully illustrated look at how weaving has influenced art, industry, and society worldwideWeaving is one of humanity's oldest technologies and remains central to our global economies.
An acclaimed cultural history of blacknow available in an attractive, text-only, pocket-sized paperbackBlackfavorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascistshas always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad.
How scribes of the ancient Maya pictured sound and meaning through inventive hieroglyphic writing that pulsed with vitality and witFor two millennia, the ancestral Maya of Mexico and Central America created a rich legacy of image and text.
How scribes of the ancient Maya pictured sound and meaning through inventive hieroglyphic writing that pulsed with vitality and witFor two millennia, the ancestral Maya of Mexico and Central America created a rich legacy of image and text.
